It is my birthday today. Hard to compete with Jesus your entire life but it is what it is. LOL :)
Sometime over the Christmas holiday days, I cut out these flaperon mixer brackets and prepped them for priming.
Also did the same for the flap control weldment. For some reason this did not come powder coated. I prepped, primed and painted the weldment.
Next Van's has you mark and clip the corners off of this flap weldment mount blocks.
Used the band saw to get the job done. Might have saved a few grams of weight.
I then bolted in the flap weldment and the mixer brackets.
It was a circus act getting that bolt down thru the mixer arm, top mixer bracket, flap pushrod, bottom mixer bracket and then finally thru a washer before the bolt threaded into the bottom mixer arm's nutplate. I used double sided scotch tape to hold the thin washer on top of the bottom mixer arm while I juggled the rest of the stackup. Be careful as the top and bottom mixer bracket plates are different and the orientation is critical.
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